Leaders of five Southeast Asian nations gathered Wednesday in the Thai capital for economic talks that have taken a new focus since the latest outbreaks of bird flu in the region.
The prime ministers of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thaila…
The Ghana Cocoa Board has denied that there are insufficient funds for the 2005/2006 cocoa main crop purchases.
A statement signed in Accra by Mr Kwame Sarpong, Chief Executive, said; "sufficient funds have been released to the L…
The Suhum Constituency branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has elected a nine-member executive to steer the affairs of the party for the next four years at a delegate's conference at Nankese in the Eastern Region.
The officers w…
The Bolgatanga Central Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the weekend elected a 10-member Executive to steer the affairs of the party for another four years.
Six out of the 10 executive were retained unopposed.…
Ghana would soon ratify the United Nations and African Union (AU) Conventions on Preventing and Combating Corruption and related offences following Parliament's receipt of Government's documents on the issue.
So far only 10 nations,…
Osu based Auxerre F/C, a Division Two football club put up a good performance to beat visiting Oblogo Nikwab Professionals 2-0 in their Division Two League match at the Hearts Park in Accra on Sunday.
Auxerre's striker Stephen Aidoo …
The Minority in Parliament on Thursday called on President John Agyekum Kufuor to withdraw the appointment of Mrs Gifty Eugenia Kusi from the Boards of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) and Goldfields Mining Company Limited.
In…
The Accra bourse inched up in trading on Friday on a five-cedi gain by British-America Tobacco Company Limited on the broader market.
The gain pushed up the GSE All-Share Index, the main market indicator, by 0.13 points to 4,889.33 p…
Ghana is nearing the stage of being a polio-free nation if immunization programmes are taken seriously, Dr Kwadwo Antwi-Agyei, Programme Manager of Expanded Immunisation Programme of Ghana Health Service, said on Thursday in Accra.
H…
The Chief Justice, Mr Justice George Kingsley Acquah has inducted into office 18 persons as career Magistrates to fill vacant positions in 81 Magistrate's Courts.
The country needs about 800 Magistrate's Courts.
Thirty-two peop…
The Ghana Employers' Association (GEA) has warned that it would not countenance any action by workers, government and even employers that ran contrary to the dictates of the Labour Act.
The Association, therefore, affirmed its readin…
The Ghana Hoteliers Association (GHA) has appealed to the Ghana Tourist Board (GTB) to review the 400 per cent increase in the registration fees for new hotels.
They said the increase for all categories of hotels was arbitrary and a …
Madam Sophia Horner-Sam, Deputy Western Regional Minister, has said there was no need for rivalry between polytechnics and other tertiary institutions because they play complementary roles.
She made the call when addressing the opening …
The Most Reverend Emeritus Professor Kwesi A. Dickson, a former President o the Methodist Church of Ghana and the Immediate- Past President of the All African Council of Churches is dead. He was 76.
The Most Rev. Dickson, who was born…
Participants at a two-day workshop to promote democracy and good governance have suggested the institution of an anti-corruption day to create awareness about the effects and consequences of corruption.
They attributed the alarming …
The Ashanti Regional branch of the Zongo Caucus of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has commended the initiative of Professor Kwesi Andam, Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), for the c…
Iraqis have approved a landmark constitution but analysts say that Iraqi and US authorities must move beyond symbols and nail down ways of curbing the insurgency.
The constitutional referendum on October 15 "led to a split instead of …
President John Agyekum Kufuor has denied allegations that Ghana contributed funds to the Zimbabwe opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
A statement issued from the Office of the President's Press Secretary, Mr Kwabena Agyep…
About 1,000 small-scale miners have been relocated at Japa, Adjumadium and Oguakrom from Prestea as part of the Ministry of Mine's measures to control and monitor the activities of small-sclae miners, Professor Dominic Fobih Minister of La…
A human influenza pandemic provoked by bird flu or another virus will surely hit Europe at some point and the EU needs to prepare for the ensuing public health crisis, a disease control expert said on Tuesday.
"Europe experienced thr…
Dr Lawson Ahadzie, Acting Director of Public Health, Ministry of Health, on Tuesday warned that the avian or bird flu that had engulfed Asian countries would have a devastating impact on the socio-economic development should it emerge in …
Professor Emmanuel Owusu-Bennoah, Director-General of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has tasked African scientists to ensure that research developed to enhance agricultural technologies, were appropriate to the …
Tiny dots produced by some laser printers are a secret code that can allow the government to track down counterfeiters, a new study concludes, raising the hackles of privacy advocates.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said its resea…
China's forex reserves are expected to surpass Japan's this year as strong fund inflows and a burgeoning trade surplus make it the world's largest holder of foreign currency, state press reported Tuesday.
"At this speed, our foreign r…
Shareholders in telecom service provider Omantel are hoping to cash in on their investment amid expectations of a jump in the firm's stock price when foreign investors are allowed to deal in the shares Thursday.
In the largest initial…
Newmont Gold Ghana Limited on Tuesday said it would support the funeral and burial arrangements of the two persons who died while crossing the Company's dam at Kenyasi in the Brong Ahafo Region earlier this month.
The Company described…
The East German secret police spied on the man who would become Pope Benedict XVI for 15 years, targeting him as one of the Vatican's fiercest opponents of communism, according to a report published on Sunday.
From April 1974 until th…
The national male hockey team, the Black Sticks put up a stellar performance but succumbed 2-4 to the North African giants, Egypt, in the opening match of the Ninth African Hockey Championship at the Tshwane University of Technology pitch …
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger believes the decision by bookmakers to pay out on Chelsea defending their Premiership title will backfire and spur his side to challenge their London rivals.
Paddy Power, who are ironically one of Arsenal's …
An official of the Ghana Exports Promotion Council (GEPC), has predicted that Ghana will in the medium to long term take control of 10 percent of world export of black pepper.
Mr Erasmus Ashun, Zonal Officer in-charge of the Ashanti …
Police have raided a recording studio in London where disgraced supermodel Kate Moss is alleged to have snorted cocaine and they plan to interview the 31-year-old next month, a newspaper said on Saturday.
The British beauty is current…
The Right Reverend Daniel Allotey, Anglican Bishop of Cape Coast, on Thursday called for a review of the quota and protocol systems for admissions into second cycle institutions to reduce problems associated with the computerised selection…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday denied curtailing the entire operations of Bogoso Gold Limited (BGL) saying, "only operations at the plant's north pit has been suspended".
Nana Andoh, Director of Mining at the EPA…
More than 100 teachers in Bolgatanga on Thursday embarked on a four-hour peaceful demonstration to register their displeasure over the undue delay of their 2005 salary negotiations between the Central Management Board (CMB) and the Consult…
The Centre for Information, Technologies, Research and Development (CITRED), a communication consultancy, has selected eight Senior Secondary Schools in the Northern Region for training in computer literacy.
The beneficiaries are the…
Mr Solomon Kwami Tetteh, the National President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), has said journalists were "gradually losing the strong constitutional power and respect they had during the 1990s due to acts of 'deviant' journalism being…
Pepsi-Cola Ghana Limited on Wednesday presented a cheque for 90 million cedis to nine winners of its Stars hunt raffle.
The wanted "Stars" are Michael Essien, Stephen Appiah, Henry Thiery, Becham David and Ronaldinho. The lucky winne…
Prof Gyan Baffour, a Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, has stressed the need for micro finance institutions to expand their outreach services efficiently and on a sustainable basis to low-income households.
He was add…
The Aburi Girls Secondary School has won the maiden Cocoa Quiz competition organised for some secondary schools in the Eastern Region at Koforidua on Thursday.
Aburi Girls won with 27 points, beating Pope John's Secondary School, Kof…
The Ghana Bar Association has returned all the seven-member national executives unopposed for another year's term during elections to climax the association's three-day annual general conference at Elmina.
They are Mr Solomon Kwami …
Mr Muniru Arafat Nuhu, the Cape Coast Municipal Chief Executive, has expressed concern over the abysmal performance of the assembly in its revenue generation effort.
He expressed regret that the assembly has only been able to realize …
Immigration with be at the top of the agenda when Morocco and Spain hold summit talks Thursday after around a thousand would-be African immigrants stormed a border fence in the Spanish enclave of Melilla over two consecutive nights, 300 ma…
Mr Sandys Kyei Baffour, Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Asante-Akyem Rural Bank was on Wednesday elected Chairman of the Asante-Akim South constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at a delegate's congress at Juaso.
He…
Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) personnel
at the Abutia-Check point on Wednesday intercepted
a tipper truck with 27 bundles of English wax prints embedded in sand.
CEPS personnel used spades and other tools to reach …
Thirteen people died when a bus carrying pilgrims from a Muslim shrine overturned in Pakistan Wednesday, raising the toll from the fifth such accident since the weekend to nearly 70, police said.
The overloaded vehicle toppled onto it…
The US Army has dropped an inquiry into whether US military personnel provided gruesome photographs of war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan to an Internet website in return for access to pornography, army spokesmen said Wednesday.
A preli…
As part of measures to combat the recent upsurge in armed robberies, Operation Calm Life was on Thursday re-launched to minimise the crime rate in Accra.
The operation, which would be carried out by personnel from the Ghana Armed Forces …
A mile-long (1.5-kilomter) procession of protesters marched through downtown San Francisco on Saturday, decrying US president George W. Bush's handling of everything -- from Iraq to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Demonstrators ra…
There was no disguising the joy most German football fans took from Bayern Munich's 2-0 defeat at SV Hamburg on Saturday and that was reflected in the media.
Hamburg ended Bayern's run of 15 consecutive league wins and they were the t…
Tunisian club Etoile Sahel closed on a second consecutive African Champions League final appearance by taking a 1-0 lead over Raja Casablanca of Morocco Saturday in the semi-finals.
Nigerian Emeka Opara snatched the 59th-minute winner…
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